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A new trend in family photography [also known as lifestyle photography] is having a photographer come home repeatedly over the course of a year

PhotographyBlog has a terrific interview of National Geographic's Gerd Ludwig

24 Ways to impress your friends. The one on photographic palettes is my favorite

Video Volunteers “is working to create a global network of 100s of rural or peri-urban Video Producers who produce and share media across the barriers of illiteracy, poverty and media neglect.”

Try explaining this to the security guard as you check in for your next flight

Top 10 Blogs for writers

I think Andy Warhol is rolling in his grave. Check how Barney's is selling his designs on Campbell's soup cans for a whopping $48 [sure you get four of 'em, but for salty soup?] Via Kottke

Dosa Man [via Pardon My Hindi‘s Whatsthesamachar]

Heidi Good – interesting photography, clean design aethetic. Check out her website!

Getty Images Year In Focus is a retrospective of the best images from the year. Expect more of these “best of …” galleries soon. I'll post them as soon as I hear about them. If you get to them sooner than I do, please do email and let me know.

If you are Macintosh-lover like me, you are probably on the look out for some pretty slick software to go with your machine(s). MacHeist has for the last week or so been selling a bundle of software for $49. The actual value of the package, of 10 separate award-winning applications, if bought separately would be about $360! What a deal, then to get it just for $49, eh? Well, in line with my previous post about giving and receiving at the same time, about 25% of what you pay for the bundle goes to one of the charities listed on their page. You get to select which one or split the 25% across all eight charities. Very cool. You have got only about 31 hours to go before the vault is sealed and the sale ends. So get to it!

Dan Heller's Photography Business Blog

John Nack lists a slew of photo guides that you must download

Interested in shooting and processing RAW images? How about sharpening those images that appear dull and boring right out of the camera? Well, Bruce Fraser's books and acumen on these subjects and other Photoshop-centric issues are legendary and have helped thousands of photographers across the globe. Unfortunately Bruce has been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. Bruce Fraser is a true Photoshop guru. Pay your respects. The National Association of Photoshop Professionals has announced that it will honor Fraser with a Lifetime Achievement Award.

Is the photojournalist an endangered species? Sigh!

Photojournalist Ed Kashi‘s work on Mediastorm uses an interesting device to display his most recent project: Iraqi Kurdistan.

Photographer and friend Neil van Niekerk explains how he uses his camera's histogram to avoid blow-outs. Check out also his in-depth look at how to use your dedicated flash unit.

This should be on every photog's reference desk: John Harrington's Best Business Practices For Photographers

Conde Nast launches VOGUE in India

Pixelicious is a free resource for professional and aspiring photographers

The National Associations of Photoshop Professionals is hosting the Photoshop User Awards

One Light Workshop – Zach Arias' intense workshop that I hope to attend [if he heads into Boston]

Youki – A Flash-based tool to design your website. There are only two variations, but they look wicked cool. Con: At nearly $50/month, it's way too expensive. To see what one can do with it though, check out the developer's site.

Got a Mac? Good move. Well, since you broke your piggy bank once to buy my favorite computer, here is a link to ThriftMac, a site chock-full of of free software for the best OS around.

CellJournalist “permits cameraphone users to upload photos to their servers. The company then turns around and sells these images to media outlets all over the world and shares the revenue with the photographer.” [via Micropersuasion]

Tutorial Tomb is a “massive list of plugins, filters, brushes, actions & gradients” for Photoshop users. Go to town!

Preloadr is a free service providing image manipulation functions linked with your Flickr account. It is designed to pre-process photos uploaded to Flickr.

flipclips – Turn your digital video clips into paper flipclips